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It was one of the first pieces of rustic work of any size, and 

 displaying any ingenuity that we remember to have seen 

 here ; and from its summit, though the garden walks afford- 

 ed no prospect, a beautiful reach of the neighbourhood for 

 many miles was enjoyed. 



Figure 64 is a design for a rustic prospect tower of three 

 stories in height, with a double thatched roof 

 It is formed of rustic pillars or columns, which 

 are well fixed in the ground, and which are 

 filled in with a fanciful lattice of rustic 

 branches. A spiral stair-case winds round 

 the interior to the platform of the second and 

 upper stories, where there are seats under the open thatched 

 roof 



On a/erme ornee^ where the proprietor desires to give a 

 picturesque appearance to the different appendages of the 

 place, rustic work offers an easy and convenient method of 

 attaining this end. The dairy is sometimes made a detach- 

 ed building, and in this country it may be built of logs in 

 a tasteful manner with a thatched roof; the interior beinof 

 studded, lathed, and plastered in the usual way. Or the 

 ice-house, which generally shows but a rough gable and ridge 

 roof rising out of the ground, might be covered with a neat 

 structure in rustic work, overgrown with vines, which would 

 give it a pleasing or picturesque air, instead of leaving it, as at 

 present, an unsightly object, which we are anxious to con- 

 ceal. 



A species of useful decoration, which is perhaps more nat- 

 urally suggested than any other, is the bridge. Where a 

 constant stream, of greater or less size, runs through the 

 grounds, and divides the banks on opposite sides, a bridge of 

 some description, if it is only a narrow plank over a rivulet, 



